I am on vacation this week, so this is a ‘best of’ review. Summary: Coming of age novel the way coming of age novels should be written. All about realizing that the world does not revolve around you. The book description on Amazon does not do this book justice. It is a coming of age … Read more
Reposting review because the book is now available in a Kindle Edition Summary: The wonderful story with a new comic book feel in honor of its 50th anniversary. Late every Christmas Eve my wife and I go over to her cousin’s house and we act as elves. We put together all the toys, make sure all … Read more
I was talking to a friend last night. He was talking about he new found love of comic books since he started reading them on his iPad. I have read a lot of comic books. I just was not a part of a community that read them, I didn’t have the money to buy a … Read more
I am a fan of Madeline L’Engle. I re-read the whole five book Wrinkle in Time series last year and several of her young young adult books from the late 40s. I have not read a lot of graphic novels but I am very tempted to buy this new A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel. … Read more
When I was a boy I read a lot of books (surprising I know). Some I have been revisiting over the past couple years (CS Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, etc.) I have found that I enjoy re-reading many of those books, but that reading them as an adult sometimes gives me a whole new insight into … Read more
Today’s Kindle Book of the Day for July 15. On sale for $2.99. I am reposting the full review. Takeaway: A romantic cross between Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Hunger Games without the violence, Wrinkle in Time told from the perspective of the people of Camazotz and the determinism of Asmov’s Foundation series. All of the recent … Read more
Summary: A post-World War II boarding school is the setting of a classic coming of age story. I have read a number of Madeleine L’Engle books over the last year or so. Originally I wanted to re-read the Wrinkle in Time series. Which led me to the last two books in the quintet that I … Read more
Daniel Darling reviewed Jonathan Merritt’s soon to be released A Faith of our Own The Englewood Review of Books has a review by Bob Cornwall of Amos Yong’s The Bible, Disability and the Church. This is a book I have been meaning to read since it came out. Not a review, but a fix to … Read more
Summary: The twins, Sandy and Denis, go back into biblical history and find their place in their special family. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition Many Waters is the fourth book in Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quintet. It was not published until 1986, almost a decade after the third book and 24 years after the first book … Read more